Integrals of subharmonic functions on manifolds of nonnegative curvature

In a previously published paper [9], the authors proved an approximation theorem for geodesically convex functions on Riemannian manifolds (Theorem 2 of [91). Applications of this theorem to complex function theory on noncompact K~ihler manifolds have been announced in [8, II and III] . The main result of the present paper is an application of this approximation theorem to Riemannian geometry proper. To describe this principal theorem, let M be a Riemannian manifold and let Z(M) be the closure of the set of all C ~176 subharmonic functions in C~ the algebra of continuous functions on M equipped with the compact open topology. (A C ~ function f is subharmonic if Af>O, where the sign